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	<description>Inside with the Mumboe Development Team</description>
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		<title>Adding the includeClassIf Method to Ext.Element</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created an includeClassIf method on Ext.Element with the following code:
Ext.override(Ext.Element,{
  includeClassIf: function(cls,condition){
    condition ? this.addClass(cls) : this.removeClass(cls)
  }
});
There are few situations when Ext.Element.toggleClass is the best choice. In fact, just willy nilly toggling anything is risky because you&#8217;re assuming that whatever the current state, you want it to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=48</link>
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		<title>New Search Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve launched the new search tool! Read more about it on our main Mumboe blog.
For this project customer feedback was the driving force behind the change. Customers requested to see results for documents and contacts in addition to agreements. We looked over past customer searches, which indicated they were also looking for agreement templates and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Ext JS &#8211; Getting order of events for an Ext component</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ext provides public events to which you can attach listeners. Understanding the order in which these events occur is key to building and interacting with components effectively. Although there isn&#8217;t any Ext documentation that specifies the order of events for objects, there is a way to have Ext spit out the events it fires when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Mumboe is now on GitHub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During development of the Mumboe Contract Management product we have created and modified several open source Ruby gems and Rails plug-ins.  While that code has been on GitHub, it has been managed under individual developer&#8217;s private accounts.  We have now consolidated development under a single Mumboe account for all of our open source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Customer Contact Notes are an Excellent Resource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small companies like us can&#8217;t perform a lot of usability studies or afford focus groups; we just don&#8217;t have the resources. So, we&#8217;re constantly asking ourselves, &#8220;How are we going to get in better touch with what our customers are doing and what they need to better manage their contracts?&#8221;
Among those with answers are our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Working Around Errors and Crashes in Adobe Fireworks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Fireworks is my prototyping tool of choice, but it&#8217;s got a lot of problems. It crashes often when using custom symbol scripts, and gives no useful response. After working hours on projects, I often find Fireworks &#8220;quits unexpectedly&#8221; when opening a file or that it is &#8220;unable to drag and drop&#8221; when dragging a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=43</link>
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		<title>Mumboe&#8217;s Discoverability Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just finished conducting a usability study of the administration (admin) area of the Mumboe application. The admin area includes features like adding users, upgrading, and customizing agreement types and agreement fields. We tested 6 participants and got a lot of great feedback and results.
The most pertinent finding was low discoverability for admin features. Participants were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Lecayla, Ruby and Soap4r</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was tasked with incorporating our system with a 3rd party credit card processing company called Lecayla.  Initially this was written using PHP which was extremely easy, but now I needed to do it with Ruby.  Lecayla had examples written in PHP but it seemed that no one was using Ruby.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=32</link>
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		<title>More Flexible Rails Migrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we moved from our own internally developed PHP framework to using Ruby on Rails, I had written a database migration library that mimics Rail&#8217;s with two key differences:

It allowed for retroactive running of migrations with versions at or below the current database version.
It allowed a developer to force run a migration, even if that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>FineTooth at AMIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FineTooth will be at the AMIA 2006 Symposium for a poster presentation with the  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  The presentation is on the use of our automated text extraction service to build a cancer tumor registry from pathology reports.  The poster presentation is part of S13 Poster Session 1.  If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://development.mumboe.com/?p=29</link>
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